Editing Laura Linney (section)

==Early life and education==
Linney was born February 5, 1964,<ref name=AP02052022>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-24 |title=Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 30-Feb. 5 |url=https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-celebrity-christian-bale-music-595da2b9f12a2851c9506688fe1dd89a |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> in [[Manhattan]], New York City. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née Leggett), was a nurse at the [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]], and her father, [[Romulus Linney (playwright)|Romulus Zachariah Linney IV]], was a playwright and professor.  Linney spent summers with her father in [[New Hampshire]] and fell in love with the stage, working with the local theatre group beginning at the age of eleven.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026206/bio|title=Laura Linney Biography – Yahoo! Movies|publisher=Movies.yahoo.com|access-date=April 25, 2010|archive-date=July 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724140022/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026206/bio|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=actors>Stated on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', 2009</ref><ref name="book1">{{cite book|last=Cloninger Boggs|first=Mary Olivia|title= The indubitable Busbees and their kin|publisher=M.O.C. Boggs|year=1981|page=105}}</ref> Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman [[Romulus Zachariah Linney]]. She has a half-sister named Susan from her father's second marriage.

Linney is a 1982 graduate of [[Northfield Mount Hermon School]], a preparatory school in Massachusetts (which she serves as the chair of the Arts Advisory Council). She then attended [[Northwestern University]] before transferring to [[Brown University]], where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and [[John Emigh]] and served on the board of [[Production Workshop]], the university's student theater group.<ref name=actors/> During her senior year at Brown, she performed in one of her father's plays as [[Lady Ada Lovelace]] in a production of ''[[Childe Byron]]'', a drama in which the poet [[Lord Byron]] mends a taut, distant relationship with his daughter Ada.
<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patrica |title=Genuine Actress Flirts With Stardom |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2010/01/24/genuine-actress-flirts-with-stardom/28918806007/ |date=January 20, 2010 |url-status = live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112005835/https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2010/01/24/genuine-actress-flirts-with-stardom/28918806007/ |archive-date=November 12, 2023}}</ref>

Linney graduated from Brown in 1986.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1548249/Laura-Linney/biography | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080213190813/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1548249/Laura-Linney/biography | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 13, 2008 | department = Movies & TV Dept. | work = [[The New York Times]] | author = Rebecca Flint | date = 2008 | title = Laura Linney | access-date = April 7, 2012}}</ref> and went on to study acting at the [[Juilliard School]] as a member of Group 19 (1986–90), which also included [[Jeanne Tripplehorn]] and [[Tim Blake Nelson]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2007-2008/0709/index.php | title = Alumni News | publisher = [[The Juilliard School]] | date = September 2007 | access-date = April 7, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111111121334/http://juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2007-2008/0709/index.php | archive-date = November 11, 2011}}</ref> In 2003, Linney received an [[honorary degree|honorary]] [[Doctor of Fine Arts|doctor of fine arts]] degree from Brown.<ref>{{Cite web|title=02-138 (Honorary Degrees)|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-138.html|website=www.brown.edu|access-date=April 30, 2020|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803015732/https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-138.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Juilliard when she delivered the school's commencement address in 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/2008-09/May2009_commencement.php | title = Laura Linney to Deliver Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard's 104th Commencement Ceremony | work = Press Release | publisher = [[The Juilliard School]] | date = May 2009 | access-date = April 7, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110321023038/http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/2008-09/May2009_commencement.php | archive-date = March 21, 2011}}</ref>